Sentences with phrase «field measurements of»

We have completed field measurements of each of the 35 glaciers below and use the aerial photographs to present a broad view that is lost when taking a picture of the glacier from the ground.

Placing these ecoclimate consequences in a regional context also makes it possible to more directly compare local impacts with field measurements of vegetation change.

Direct field measurements of N2O emissions are prohibitively costly, and the use of default values can not capture variation in emissions associated with weather conditions and site - specific factors.

These risks were further evaluated through field measurements of insulated and un-insulated mock - up walls, and simulated further under more severe climate conditions.

«The trim coils have proven extremely useful, not only by ensuring a balanced plasma exhaust onto the divertor plates, but also as a tool for the physicists to perform magnetic field measurements of unprecedented accuracy,» said Thomas Sunn Pederson, Max Planck director of stellarator edge and divertor physics.

However, while field measurements of sulfur dioxide emissions are increasing, they still remain too sparse to piece together a cohesive global picture.

But on - the - field measurements of head impacts challenge this assumption.

Field measurements of tree death since last year's drought are also needed to refine the estimate of the weather event's impact on the carbon cycle.

Field measurements of methane emissions from two termite nests in Guatemala corroborated the laboratory results.

Not exact matches

Alongside field work the team, which included scientists from the WHRC and Boston University, used 12 years of satellite imagery, field measurements and laser remote sensing technology as part of its method.

I worked with a business that competed in the exciting field of humidity measurement.

As the field of impact investing grows, it is critical that the measurement and reporting of impact is thoughtful and rigorous.

It is the world leader in the measurement of density, concentration and CO2 and in the field of rheometry.

The general literature on continuity notes that a lack of clarity in definition and measurement of different types of continuity has been one of the limitations in research in this field (Haggerty 2003).

A major field of research is human milk for preterm infants: measurement of its composition, optimization of the fortification, best way to pasteurize human milk to preserve its quality.

The UC Davis bioelectricity laboratory is one of a very few able to make such sensitive measurements of electric fields in living tissue.

«Our research team aims to explore and model these non-Newtonian characteristics of blood flow through careful, well - documented measurements, and by combining expertise within the fields of rheology, computational modeling, and biology,» Horner said.

Those data are proprietary, however, and the measurements can not be scaled up to the level of an entire oil and gas field.

Huss gathered more than 100 years of field measurements, aerial photographs, and local weather logs pertaining to 30 large Swiss glaciers to build computer models of each, identifying fast melt in the 1940s and in the past couple of decades.

Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

«An atom interferometer uses the quantum «wave - like» nature of atoms in order to make very precise measurements of accelerations, rotations, and gravitational fields»

«Juno's gravity field measurements differ significantly from what we expected, which has implications for the distribution of heavy elements in the interior, including the existence and mass of Jupiter's core,» Bolton said.

Nicolas Gillet of the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, and colleagues, modelled fluid behaviour in the Earth's core based on measurements of fluctuations in the magnetic field.

Scientists have been taking direct measurements of the field only since 1837, but mariners have been watching magnetic north far longer.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

At the end of his talk he said, «You know, we've tried to test these ideas in the field and the lab, and there are really no measurements that match the quantities I've told you about.»

To see whether the measurement would hold up in the field, Gore teamed with Lisandro Benedetti - Cecchi, an ecologist at the University of Pisa in Italy, to study algae along the shore of the small Italian island of Capraia.

«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).

«Despite having an enhanced number of field measurements, the geographical coverage of TRY is still limited with little or no data for much of the tropics, large swaths of Central Asia, Russia, South Asia and much of the Arctic,» said co-lead author Abhi Datta, formerly a PhD student in the Division of Biostatistics at UMN.

Semantic Scholar tries to reveal what's «hot» in the field by measuring the «velocity» and «acceleration» of bodies of work, measurements of how rapidly others are citing certain work, and whether that is trending.

She was even more surprised by new measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field, which is the strongest in the solar system.

Scott Goetz, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center who has studied the Amazon, said that fleshing out what are «essentially back - of - the - envelope calculations» of the 2010 drought's impact will require additional field measurements and a closer examination of satellite observations of the Amazon's tree canopy.

These include instruments that make measurements of temperatures, magnetic fields, and electrical conductivity of the comet surface.

These measurements showed that an almost imperceptible mound in the field had a clear circular outline, so Holm and Sindbæk decided to call in an expert in archaeological geophysics from the University of York in the UK.

In a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxies.

In every branch of science, Maxwell declared, «the labor of careful measurement has been rewarded by the discovery of new fields of research and by the development of new scientific ideas.»

To test the idea, they compared their measurements with the mathematical predictions of how powerful the increase in conductivity should be with increasing magnetic field strength.

Robert Watson, a government official and co-chair of the scientific panel that advises the Montreal Protocol, said that laboratory experiments, computer models, and field measurements all support the conclusion that CFCs are destroying stratospheric ozone.

The Galileo spacecraft took brief «snapshot» measurements of the magnetic field in 20 - minute intervals, but its observations were too brief to distinctly catch the cyclical rocking of the ocean's secondary magnetic field.

Two of them will be part of the GRAIL mission — the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory — now starting to make extremely precise measurements of the lunar gravitational field.

But there is reason to suspect that gravitational energy is a special case, that measurements of sufficient accuracy might expose a violation of the equivalence principle when energy is stored in a gravity field.

The goal was to see if a mother ship microsatellite could launch smaller daughter ships, with all the satellites capable of sending magnetic field measurements to Earth.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

«This process required measurements over several weeks, during which the fluctuations of the magnetic field applied had to be 10,000 times smaller than the magnetic field of the earth,» explained the study's primary author, Helmut Strobel.

Pourhashem noted the key measurements needed are the rate of soil emission of nitric oxide (NO), which is a smog precursor, after biochar is applied to fields.

Kensuke Kobayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University) and Sadashige Matsuo (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo), in cooperation with research groups led by Teruo Ono (Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University) and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Research Fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science), produced graphene samples capable of forming p - n junctions by combining gate electrodes and performed precise measurements of current - fluctuation («shot noise») in the graphene p - n junction in the QH regime in the strong magnetic fields and at low temperatures.

«Gravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior: Data grid for GOCE gravity field measurements sheds new light on the Earth's structure.»